seventeen
/ˈsɛv.ən.tiːn/ numeral A1- The cardinal number occurring after sixteen and before eighteen, represented in Roman numerals as XVII and in Arabic numerals as 17.
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My daughter is only seventeen years old, and your son twenty-one.
What else can a strapping chap of twenty-one mean with a fine wench of seventeen?”
“Today is the 30th of July, 1816,—why, it is but seventeen months.”
“Only seventeen months,” replied Dantès.
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